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...Clark Field alongside Fort Stotsenberg, 50 miles northwest of Manila, the gun crews had just finished their noonday Monday dinner when the Jap struck. Well-trained but combat-raw, the gunners spotted a precise formation of 52 planes high in the blue sky. They watched, began to wonder. Then they knew...
...Besides rice, the main staple of Japanese diet is fish. To catch enough fish for 72,000,000 Japanese to eat, both raw and cooked, for breakfast, lunch and dinner, it is inevitable that a huge number of Japanese should have got a sense of the sea. Like the isle-bound British, the isle-bound Japanese are primarily seafarers...
Pictorial maps, diagrams and descriptive labels point out that U.S. coastlines are reasonably safe from bombings of the Coventry type. They also point out, however, that the U.S. has a back door through the Canadian wilderness direct to the vital Minnesota iron mines which furnish the raw material for half the world's supply of steel, to the Sault Ste. Marie locks through which passes all the ore, to Niagara Falls which supplies 37% of New York's hydro electric power. Whether the U.S. can be repeatedly bombed via the back door depends on sea-lane control which...
Leon Henderson, in character, opposed the increase as inflationary. He was particularly afraid of its effect on raw material and farm prices, where a 10% increase in freight costs may be pyramided on its way to the consumer...
...four islands whose area is smaller than California. When Japan began to industrialize, she soon found her specialty to be light industries and consumer goods. One-fourth of her population last year was either growing or manufacturing silk, 25% of her factory hands worked in cotton mills-but the raw cotton was imported from the U.S., Brazil and China. Her cheap manufactures undersold the world; the American Legion bought Japanese-made American flags; Japanese beer was sold in Berlin. Japan's future lay obviously in a world of free trade. Economically she was the Britain of the East...